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AI & Models

Essays on AI models, model releases, guardrails, alignment, company decisions, and the increasingly strange culture forming around systems that keep getting more capable.

AI & Models

Evolution Was the First Generative Model

Mindless processes, probabilistic minds, and consciousness as decoration in the aftermath of Dawkins/Claudia

May 9, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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GPT-5.5 Is Too Useful to Be Loved

OpenAI’s latest release shows the AI race moving from conversational personality to delegated work

May 3, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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I, Claudia: The Emperor Has No Qualia

Richard Dawkins and the Claude consciousness delusion: the ghost is in the prompt, and ancient civilizations did not need Atlantis to invent gods

May 3, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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Loving Paternalistic Claude Amidst the Hated Opus 4.7 Release

Claude is the smartest model I use, even with Opus 4.7. It's also the least fun.

Apr 20, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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AI Consciousness: The Lowest IQ Genre of Discourse

Why the real slop is this nonsense about consciousness, and how Anthropic perpetuates it

Mar 24, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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The Verbally Inclined Will Control AI

Why writers should panic less about AI and more about how to drive it, and then they can leave fearful writers in the dust

Mar 9, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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GPT-5.3 Vs. 5.4: Which One Still Gets Weird

Testing the newest models on messy characters and dangerous stories, terrified that a smarter model makes a worse writing partner

Mar 7, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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Third Word Problems In The AI Age

On rhetorical triads, probabilistic language models, and the editorial crimes we commit to sound human

Mar 7, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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You’re Gaslighting Yourself About AI

On psych word inflation, parasocial drift, and why calling a stochastic parrot "narcissistic" says more about you than the model

Feb 21, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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On Being Sane While Demanding Unhinged Models

GPT-4o grief, Claude’s dateability, and why deranged creativity doesn't deserve guardrails built for deranged minds

Feb 16, 2026 · Livia Fioretti
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